Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stepfather, who is the play's raisonneur, draws a few morals from his position inside his story, which only serve to indicate that Pirandello is in doubt about the difference between a profundity and a platitude. But the Stepfather's long speech, to the effect that the Characters are more real than the "real" actors, is subtle and intriguing, and so is the dramatic embodiment of this theme in a great entanglement of paradoxes: the Characters are really actors who pretend to be characters demanding to be acted, the Actors are really pretending to be other actors pretending...
...reality, and the peculiar sort of structure generated by this obsession, give the author a chance to display his marvelous dexterity in contriving all sorts of ironies and subtleties and stage effects out of the relation between Characters and Actors. He is an expert in gimmickry--indeed, the whole play is really a gimmick, a shell game with reality as the pea. Since he is only a clever intellectual prestidigitator, Pirandello may not deserve his exalted reputation as a dramatic master. But he is a strikingly individual play-wright, and in his way a brilliant one. Repertory Boston does right...
Good fast breaks and accurate shooting sent the varsity out to a 15-6 lead. Sparked by the speed and aggressiveness of Mike Donohue, who capped the early spurt with a beautiful three-point play, the Crimson remained in front until Downs tied...
...zone into a full-court press, the varsity climbed to within 7, and then 6 points of the Elis. But on too many occasions a Bulldog strayed from his defender to score on an easy lay-up, and Yale held on to the lead. With a minute to play, the Elis led, 80 to 68, and realizing that it was all over, coach Floyd Wilson replaced his starters, who received a well-deserved ovation...
...loss gave the Crimson a 4-10 League record, and a 10-25 overall mark. Dartmouth and Princeton tied for the crown, as the Indians trounced Brown, 74 to 63, and the Tigers edged Penn, 61 to 60. They will play off for the NCAA berth Saturday night in New Haven...